UK plays numbers game to crunch the CAP

The UK emerged as the No 1 threat to the Common Agricultural Policy in 2005, with Tony Blair trying to overturn the 2002 CAP funding agreement.

He failed, but a UK Government report reveals why Britain still wants to scrap the EU’s 43 year old food policy. Report by Stephen Cadogan.

THE €45 billion per year Common Agricultural Policy is in the pot in a EU poker game over the next three years. Many fear a decision to wind-down the CAP, when players turn up their cards in the 2008 Budget review.